Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Study: Green Energy Is 5 Times More Expensive Than Conventional Power

Electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to five times more
expensive than electricity from existing conventional power sources,
according to a study published Tuesday by the free-market Institute for
Energy Research (IER). IER’s study found
that new solar and wind power are nearly five and 3.5 times more
expensive, respectively, than electricity from existing nuclear
reactors. IER also found green energy systems become more expensive and
damaging to the power grid the more they’re used. “Much of our existing coal and nuclear fleet could continue to
provide affordable, reliable electricity for decades to come if not for
policies like the Obama administration’s carbon regulations or the deal
struck in California to shut down Diablo Canyon,” Thomas Pyle, the IER
president, wrote in a press statement...more